Pongo En Tus Manos Abiertas (album)

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Pongo en Tus Manos Abiertas
Studio album by Víctor Jara
Released	1969
Recorded	1969
Genre	Folk Music Protest music
Length	41:23
Label	Odeon Alerce Warner
Producer(s)	Víctor Jara
Víctor Jara chronology
Victor Jara (1967)	'Pongo en Tus Manos Abiertas' (1969)	Canto Libre (1970)

Pongo en tus manos abiertas (I place in your open hands) is an album recorded by Víctor Jara in 1969. The name given to the album is the opening line to Jara’s homage to the founder of the Chilean Communist Party, Luis Emilio Recabarren. The album includes recordings of songs written by Jara and songs that Jara performs of other Latin American songwriters, such as Daniel Viglietti and Atahualpa Yupanqui that were influential to artists of the Nueva canción movement. There is a song in tribute to Che Guevara; a song about the revolutionary Colombian priest, Camilo Torres. This albums also contains a song commenting on a massacre that occurred in the city of Puerto Montt in Chile in 1967.

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1. ”A Luis Emilio Recabarren”/To Luis Emilio Recabarren (Víctor Jara)
2. ”A desalambrar”/Tear down the fences (Daniel Viglietti)
3. ”Duerme, duerme, negrito”/Sleep little black child (Popular – Atahualpa Yupanqui)
4. ”Juan sin Tierra”/Landless Juan (Jorge Saldaña)
5. ”Preguntas por Puerto Montt”/Questions about Puerto Montt (Víctor Jara)
6. ”Movil Oil Special” (Víctor Jara)
7. ”Camilo Torres” (Daniel Viglietti)
8. ”El martillo”/If I had a hammer (Lee Hays – Pete Seeger – Víctor Jara)
9. ”Te recuerdo Amanda”/I remember you Amanda (Víctor Jara)
10. ”Zamba del Che/”Zamba song for "Che" (Rubén Ortiz)
11. ”Ya parte el galgo terrible”/The ferocious greyhounds attack (Pablo Neruda – Sergio Ortega)
12. ”A Cochabamba me voy”/I am going to Cochabamba (Víctor Jara)